Ten students have been pulled from charter school because of concerns about health risks from nearby tower

Schwaebe said the density was high because the antennas are within 20 feet of the classroom. Peltier disagreed and said the antennas are farther away.

Schwaebe said he recorded 2.0 microwatts per centimeter squared of radio-frequency power density, well below the 1,000 microwatts-per-centimeter-squared level set by the FCC.

The 2012 edition of the Bioinitiative Report, however, states that biological effects were observed at 0.003 microwatts per centimeter squared, Schwaebe said. Those biological effects can include reduced cognitive abilities, depression, irritability, fatigue and insomnia.

Long-term effects include chronic aches and more serious inflammatory ailments.

“The FCC limits of 1,000 microwatts per centimeter squared is so you don’t cook yourself with a half-hour of exposure,” Schwaebe said. “There’s no consideration for long-term exposure of that radiation in this federal limit.”

Schwaebe said the Bioinitiative Report’s recommendation is to set 0.0003 microwatts per centimeter squared as a precaution.

Peltier sees the level called for by Schwaebe as unrealistic, and said readings showed levels that were 50 times below FCC requirements.

He also noted that the church hired Jerrold Bushberg, a renowned clinical professor of radiology from UC Davis, to study the radiation levels at the church, while the parents hired “some guy off the Internet.”

Peltier said he has three grandchildren who attend the church’s preschool, run by his daughter.

Cauzza said that, as a charter school, the Innovation Centre is a choice for parents.

“If parents are not comfortable with their children at the site because of the cell towers, they are more than welcome to remove their children to put them in a school or campus that is ‘safer,’ as far as they are concerned,” she wrote in an email for this article.